Close to the animal. Close to the Tree. Keep it Simple
Back in the 60s I didn't know a single soul who was allergic to any food. We ate at home, cooked from scratch and usually, what we ate came from our own garden, barn or pasture. Flour was white, sugar was either white or brown. In fact, during harvest season I used to work for a farmer who grew sugar beets. My mom drove a dump truck and I sat in the scale house and weighed the trucks as they headed to the processing factory full of beets.
1 C quick oatmeal (I use regular all the time)
1 1/2 C boiling water
1 cube butter softened
1 C brown sugar (may substitute 1/2 C molasses)
1 C granulated sugar (Raw)
2 eggs beaten
1 1/2 C whole ground wheat or spelt flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Soak oatmeal in boiling water for 20 minutes. Cream oleo (the original term for margarine) and sugars until fluffy. Add eggs, then flour and combined seasonings. Mix well. Add oatmeal and stir.
Bake in greased and floured dripper pan at 350' for 35 minutes
Summer days were lemonade made with real lemons and real sugar. Sometimes moms drank diet cola but not many watched what or how much they ate and there were very few overweight people. I'm sure it had a lot to do with the fact that there were only three channels on TV and those channels were in black and white. Very few people owned a color TV but my grandparents did, and once a year we would go across town to watch TV. It always aired on a Sunday evening. We loved the Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland and it just isn't the same experience to watch in black and white.
Grandma was a great cook and she always had a sweet treat for us to enjoy. As long as we do so responsibly, whole foods that are sweet make gathering with family sweet memories.
Oatmeal Cake
Bobbie Heap
Ingredients
1 C quick oatmeal (I use regular all the time)
1 1/2 C boiling water
1 cube butter softened
1 C brown sugar (may substitute 1/2 C molasses)
1 C granulated sugar (Raw)
2 eggs beaten
1 1/2 C whole ground wheat or spelt flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Soak oatmeal in boiling water for 20 minutes. Cream oleo (the original term for margarine) and sugars until fluffy. Add eggs, then flour and combined seasonings. Mix well. Add oatmeal and stir.
Bake in greased and floured dripper pan at 350' for 35 minutes
Icing for the cake
1 cube butter
3/4 C brown sugar
1/4 c evaporated milk or cream
Put in a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Stir well. Add 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 C chopped pecans or walnuts and 1 C coconut. Stir and spread on top of hot or cold cake
This cake is moist and delicious!
1 cube butter
3/4 C brown sugar
1/4 c evaporated milk or cream
Put in a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Stir well. Add 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 C chopped pecans or walnuts and 1 C coconut. Stir and spread on top of hot or cold cake
This cake is moist and delicious!
What is a dripper pan? Is that referring to a bigger pan than usual which would be used to catch the drippings, or is it suggesting that this recipe will go over its boundaries and need to have a pan placed under the other pan so as to save the oven from drips.
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